Judge: Parts of it have already been read out
in court. It's by a survivor. It's an American publication, which
has been translated. It's by a survivor, a prisoner who survived, Ilana
Mather.

Hanna Schmitz: Yes I know. I know Ilana Mather.

Judge: She was in the camp, wasn't she, when
she was a child? She was with her mother. In the book, she describes a
selection process. At the end of the month's labor, every month, sixty
inmates were selected. They were picked out to be sent from the
satellite camp back to Auschwitz. That's right, isn't it?

Hanna Schmitz: Yes, it's right.

Judge: And so far, each of your fellow
defendants has specifically denied being part of that process. Now I'm
going to ask you. Were you part of it?

Hanna Schmitz: Yes.

Judge: So you helped make the selection?

Hanna Schmitz: Yes.

Judge: You admit that? Then tell me, how did
that selection happen?

Hanna Schmitz: There were six guards, so we
decided we'd choose ten people each. That's how we did it -- every
month. We'd all choose ten.

Judge: Are you saying your fellow defendants
took part in the process?

Hanna Schmitz: We all did.

Judge: Even though they've denied it? But you
admit it. You're saying you took part in the process. Did you not
realize you were sending these women to their deaths?

Hanna Schmitz: Yes but there were new arrivals,
new women were arriving all the time, so of course we had to move some
of the old ones on.

Judge: I'm not sure you understand.

Hanna Schmitz: We couldn't keep everyone. There
wasn't room.

Judge: No, but what I'm saying -- let me rephrase. To make room, you
were picking women out and saying "You you and you have to be sent back
to be killed."

Hanna: Well, what would you have done? So
should I never have signed up at
Siemens?